{"id":152,"date":"2005-01-16T06:29:28","date_gmt":"2005-01-16T13:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2010-01-21T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T17:05:49","slug":"the-llama-whisperer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/16\/the-llama-whisperer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Llama Whisperer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/IMG\/llama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/IMG\/llama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For some time now, I&#8217;ve wanted a couple of llamas. Two, to be exact. I have names for them already: Dolly and Lo. Llama Lo means &#8220;Why not?&#8221; in Hebrew. And Dolly, well, if you don&#8217;t get why I want to name my llama Dolly, then I don&#8217;t even know you.<\/p>\n<p>I figure the llamas can pay for their upkeep by knitting sweaters out of their own wool. If you don&#8217;t think that makes perfect sense, then I don&#8217;t know what does. Please do not ask me about the problem of teaching llamas to knit. There are many fine people who can teach knitting. I will deal with the dyeing issue as I suspect llamas would think that sweaters are okay in brown and white and black only, which they ARE, but sometimes, you want a nice blue sweather. Or a purple one.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I want llamas? Two, to be exact? Because I would really like to say, when people ask me what I do, that I keep llamas and play the ukulele. Also, I would like to sing to my llamas. Hava Nagila and, duh, Hello Dolly. Also, Little Grass Shack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some time now, I&#8217;ve wanted a couple of llamas. Two, to be exact. I have names for them already: Dolly and Lo. Llama Lo means &#8220;Why not?&#8221; in Hebrew. And Dolly, well, if you don&#8217;t get why I want to name my llama Dolly, then I don&#8217;t even know you. I figure the llamas &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"The Llama Whisperer\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/16\/the-llama-whisperer\/#more-152\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Llama Whisperer\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austria","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}